This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| From New York City, Jeannette Capriano was featured in "The New York Times" on October 16, 2004 because of her painting, "Reverence for Life" that she donated in 1976 to Rescue Company One of Manhattan's City Fire Department. The painting, seven feet high and over five-feet in width, is a scene of firemen fighting a fire and rescuing people.
Capriano was inspired to do the work because she, then living in the Bronx, was angered by a decision of city personnel to reduce the number of firefighters, whom she greatly respected and decided to honor. Before she began the project, she spent time at the company's firehouse interviewing firefighters and researching their environment.
The painting was hung in the kitchen where firefighters spent much of their time. However, much dirt accumulated on the painting. In 2001, shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center, Mike Schunk, joined Company One and spearheaded restoration of the painting, which was done by New York University's Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts. The work was completed in time for the third anniversary of the 9/11 devastation. It is hung on a wall over a table that has the name of eleven members of Rescue Company One who lost their lives September 11, 2001.
Source:
Dan Barry, 'The Rescue of a Friehouse Treasure, Appropriately Covered in Soot', "The New York Times", 10/16/2004. |
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